Story: Citizenship

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Korean New Zealanders

By the early 2000s, several thousand Koreans were
becoming New Zealand citizens each year. In 1979, when
Jung Lee and his family received their certificates of
citizenship, they were one of only a few Korean families
to have become New Zealanders. Jung Lee came to New
Zealand in 1975 as the country’s first full-time
instructor in the martial art tae kwon do. He was
naturalised in time to be able to represent New Zealand
at the tae kwon do championships held in Germany later in
1979.